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Mandryk recommended the tests after she discovered that the basement was used by the Medical School in the early 1800's as a dissecting lecture hall...
Renovations of the chapel basement were due to be complete before classes started in September, but Michael N. Lichten, director of the Office of Physical Resources in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said the dig, could set the renovations back at least three weeks...
...little musicians are gathered in the basement of River East elementary school in one of New York's tougher neighborhoods: East Harlem. At the back of the room is a sign admonishing them to PRACTICE MORE; in front is this dervish of a drill instructor, issuing staccato directives from beneath a cloud of frizzy, dark hair that seems charged by her kinetic energy. "Don't anyone make a sound. Fix your feet and your bow right away. O.K., eyes on me. No fooling around...
Sexton researched the building's history and discovered that it wasn't always a chapel. Between 1782 and 1850, part of the basement was used as an anatomy and dissection lecture hall for the Medical School...
...remarkable find has brought with it some logistical problems. The renovations of the chapel basement--which will create a classroom and modify rehearsal space for choral groups, among other things--have been stalled since the discovery. And there's no telling when workers will be able to start again...